Hawa Bah, mother of Mohamed Bah, holds a photo of her late son at a news conference at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., in this April 2015 file photo. (Tim Roske/AP)

A judge has rejected the city's bid to throw out a $2.2 million verdict against the NYPD for the fatal police shooting of a mentally ill Harlem man in 2012.

Mohamed Bah was shot after his mother called 911 seeking help because he was acting strangely. In November of last year, a jury found that a cop who pulled the trigger, Detective Edwin Mateo, had used excessive force. Bah, 28, was carrying a knife when police entered his apartment.

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Mateo shouted "shoot him, he's stabbing me!" during the ensuing confrontation, though the detective later admitted that was not true.

The city had sought to dismiss the jury verdict on the grounds that Mateo had feared for his life.

"Mateo's testimony was inconsistent both internally and with other evidence in the case," Castel wrote.

"Mateo also testified that when he first said to his fellow officers that Bah was stabbing him, Bah was not stabbing him and, when pressed, said he could not recall whether Bah was stabbing anyone else."

The city did prevail in its effort to toss a verdict against Lt. Michael Licitra for failing to properly supervise the cops involved in the shooting.

Castel wrote that Licitra could not have anticipated Mateo's actions during the incident.

"No evidence was presented that Licitra had reason to believe that Mateo was not adequately trained in the use of force or had shown a propensity to use excessive force," the judge wrote.